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tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...

Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...

part of the scene while also seeing the entire dance routine. In many films of dancing the direction may not be on the long sho...

parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...

narrative style. With Sleepless there is a sense of desperation as lives are changing. In LAvventura there is a real desperate sit...

to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...

their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...

yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...

the long view where we can see the entire dance. This is often seen in present day films about dance where it seems the performers...

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...

depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...

surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

film La Maternelle (The Nursery School) begins with the story of Rose, who has been forced by the men in her life - her fathers ba...

was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...

Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...

as reflecting reality depicting unusual events or situations, but presenting real conflicts and issues that reflect this history o...

provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...

culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...

saved Thomass life) and to explore the meaning their culture has for each of them (Berardinelli, 1998). Its also notable, Berardi...

reporter investigating this issue and interviewing the various people who new Kane. From the newsreel, the audience learns that ...

that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....

was of the strong opinion that unlike Jung, the unconscious is not responsible for human behavior; rather, mankinds intrinsic ques...

Caesar with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was at that time entering the twilight of her life.6 At the time it was initially...

Levin fears the worst, but both Kitty and their son are safe. At that moment, Levin undergoes an epiphany of understanding and rea...